INDIGST 4J03 - Indigenous Erotics

3 unit(s)

This course is an in-depth study of the visual and literary forms of Indigenous erotics in North America. We examine a broad selection of historical and contemporary Indigenous expressions of sexualities and genders. Manifestations of the erotic will be examined and understood as a way for Indigenous Peoples to reclaim corporeal sovereignty, overcome centuries of sexual repression, dispossession and shame and revive understandings of gender and sexualities deeply rooted within Indigenous cultural paradigms. Discussions will include theoretical analyses of the social, political, historical, spiritual and intellectual realms and serve as a platform to disrupt the heteropatriarchal normative. Indigenous eroticanalysis is a methodology with which to engage in a critical dialogue on the understandings of Indigenous bodies and their established belief systems.
Seminar (three hours); one term
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Level IV of an Indigenous Studies Program or permission of Instructor